June Callwood

June Callwood, was social activist and journalist from Chatham Ontario, during her lifetime she wrote many different pieces, on a wide array of topics. At a young age she became one of Canadas most famous social justice activists. Her 2002 essay “Forgiveness”, talks about how forgiving is an essential aspect to living peacefully. This critique aims to break down the essays strengths and weaknesses and what could be improved upon. In this text, Callwood brings up multiple examples of when a person is given the chance to forgive someone else for their wrongdoing. These examples fail to include mild cases of offenses on another. But instead use extreme cases such as a child failing to forgive their parents for beating them in their youth, and…

a perfect partner? In June Callwood’s essay “Forget Prince Charming”, Callwood suggests that she does not believe a perfect partner exists. A relationship will never be perfect, since no two humans can interact frictionlessly (Callwood 322). Although “Forget Prince Charming” appeared in the National Post in 2000, it is still relevant in 2016. Callwood’s essay tells of how she has taught her granddaughters from before they were of marriageable age what to look for within their partner,…

In Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver; the father, is the dominant head of the household and carries multiple patriarchal roles. He is the sole provider for the family, making June his wife, inferior. This connects to Robert Rutherdale’s article on fatherhood and masculinity following the baby boom of the 1940s-1960s. Rutherdale argues that “while most baby boom fathers struggled to get a foothold in the vastly improved economy of the 1950s, their successes as wage earners became a central…

The Boyter vs Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service court case is also very similar to the Castelano situations. The Boyters traveled to the Dominican Republic in order to obtain their divorce. They stayed at the hotel together before and after the divorce. When they returned remained to lived together and then remarried January 9th, 1976. When filing for their taxes for the year, they both filed as single. Eventually their filings were brought to question and after disputed it was decided…

to act like I was completely clueless about the missing drugs. Cash was about to start his last song when he pulls a delicate woman out of the crowd and onto the stage. He gladly recites, “Everyone this is my beautiful June Carter and this next song will be performed by the both of us. Hope you guys like it.” He scoots the microphone in between June and himself and starts strumming. June has a glistening sparkle in her eye whenever the first lyrics of the song project out of her…

Korean-American artist Nam June Paik is recognized throughout the world as being “The Father of Video Art” for his radical artistic perspectives and ability to use technology as a creative medium in his work. Paik’s artwork and ideals primarily encompass culture and identity. Paik is able to convey these messages through his technological views, which are intertwined with his realistic vision of society, and conceptualized in some of his most famous pieces: Electronic Super Highway, TV Garden,…

I also want to dance to “Jackson” by Johnny cash and June Carter Cash, with my husband too. I am a huge fan of country music, especially Johnny Cash and I think if we did not dance to at least one classic country song in a barn at our wedding reception it would be some sort of blasphemy. As far as the father daughter dance song goes, it will be “In My Life” by the Beatles. That is my Dad’s favorite song by the Beatles, and anyone that knows me knows I am obsessed with the Beatles, especially…

A year later Cash & Carter became new weds. June was the high light of Cash’s life. Not only did she sing with him on the stage but she helped him get off drugs and stop drinking as well as Cash becoming a devout Christian fundamentalist. In 1969, Cash began hosting The Johnny Cash Show, a TV variety series that showcased contemporary musicians including his wife. The same year his show debuted, Cash also took home two Grammy Awards for the live album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The album was…

How many prisoners escaped the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island during its nearly 30 years of service? If you ask the government, they will tell you that nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz. But if you believe the movie “Escape From Alcatraz” starring Clint Eastwood, then you will know that the statement is otherwise proven wrong. Alcatraz held some of America's most cruel felons including murderer Robert Stroud, gangster Al Capone, and the “Birdman of Alcatraz”. Of all of the felons that had…

family gang of bootleggers. Karpis was caught in April of 1956 and sent to Alcatraz Prison. ("Alcatraz History.") The idea of putting a prison on an island almost two miles offshore was to isolate the prisoners. This much isolation can help prevent escapes and revolts against the staff. On the afternoon of December 16, 1937, Theodore Cole, who was serving time for kidnapping, and Ralph Roe, who was serving time for a bank robbery, broke through a window in a mat shop, sawed their way through…